OPEN THREAD: Have your usual wild Saturday night.
January 11, 2025
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Watch Blue Origin launch its 1st New Glenn rocket early Sunday in a free livestream.
I wish them luck.
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS SINCE 2021: It’s shocking that a man in this mental condition is President of the United States.
YOUR GOVERNMENT AT WORK:
Confirming that FEMA is kicking people out of hotels right now.
On the phone with a man and his girlfriend, hotel kicking him out as we speak.
He's frantically screaming into the phone, "THERE IS SNOW EVERYWHERE AND I DON'T EVEN HAVE A TENT MAN, PLEASE HELP ME!"
— Matt Van Swol (@matt_vanswol) January 11, 2025
THE LORD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS:
So James Woods’ house miraculously survived after left-wingers said it burning down was a sign from God.
So what’s the sign now? Will we get any updates?
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) January 10, 2025
BUT OF COURSE:
Obama StafferBro podcasters using the fires to fundraise for ActBlue really is the cherry on top of this whole saga of Democrat corruption and incompetence huh
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 11, 2025
UPDATE:
This is the group @jonfavs is bragging about routing money to through ActBlue.
The relief fund is a front for an open borders communist organization. https://t.co/WBHagNwbL6
— Oilfield Rando (@Oilfield_Rando) January 11, 2025
UP IN SMOKE: Palisades Fire Incinerates Future Career of Mayor Karen Bass, Gavin Newsom’s Presidential Aspirations.
There are many other significant problems created by Bass, Newsom, as well as other progressive politicians in this state. However, blog space is short.
In conclusion: Bass’ future in politics and Newsom’s presidential aspirations can be added to the list of items destroyed in the Palisades fire.
California literally turned into a red state overnight.
The political careers of Bass and Newsom are quite possibly finished as a result of their combination of incompetence and obsession with leftist eco-shibboleths and DEI (and likely, particularly in Newsom’s case, a huge dose of “Magical Sorkinism” as well.) But I’d hold off on declaring California a red state just yet. This 2015 City Journal piece by VDH titled “The Scorching of California” is a reminder that wealthy Californians seem to have little desire to fix their state’s myriad woes.
HIGH-PAID CALIFORNIA INCOMPETENCE: While the Santa Ana Winds-driven flames continue to spread the flames across Los Angeles city and county, Open the Books exposes the high salaries taxpayers fund for so much official incompetence. Check out my latest PJMedia column.
SHOCKER:
STUDY: MRC researchers have once again caught Google rigging Trump nominee searches by massive margins. https://t.co/mIRhcpNE7f
— Tom Olohan (@tolohan) January 9, 2025
I DIDN’T HAVE “WINKLEVOSS BROTHER AS MORAL LEADER” ON MY CARD FOR 2025, BUT HERE YOU ARE:
This has got to be one of the most morally depraved questions I’ve ever seen. Maybe he’s after justice. And the implication that crimes against children are somehow mitigated or should be ignored because they were committed more than a decade ago, is unconscionable. https://t.co/VJj1PoDIfJ
— Tyler Winklevoss (@tyler) January 10, 2025
BBC LISTS FIVE CAUSES OF THE CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES. #1 is “Rapid Fuel Growth.” They don’t get to “climate change” until #5, and even then they say “it is too early to establish whether or how much climate change contributed to these fires.”
Well, it certainly didn’t cause the gross institutional and personal incompetence that we saw everywhere.
NEWS YOU CAN USE:
This 👇
.@Lancegooden pic.twitter.com/ZRZgvme4wH
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) January 11, 2025
STAY WARM: Carhartt Men’s Relaxed Fit Washed Duck Sherpa-Lined Utility Jacket. #CommisisonEarned
BACK TO THE FUTURE! A “Rotatable Apparatus” from the 1960s:
This patented invention from 1963 was designed to help women give birth easily
📹Hashem Al-Ghaili pic.twitter.com/VBrlB6N1L7
— Game of X (@froggyups) January 11, 2025
What could go wrong?
READER FAVORITE: Apple AirPods Pro 2 Wireless Earbuds, Active Noise Cancellation, Hearing Aid Feature. #CommissionEarned